Prompt: As our library discovery layers (like Primo and Summon) integrate more 'Conversational AI' wrappers, we’re seeing a generation of students who have never used a Boolean operator ($AND$, $OR$, $NOT$).
Are we doing a disservice by letting 'Natural Language Processing' (NLP) hide the mechanics of research? Or is the 'Search Bar' as we know it becoming a legacy tool, like the card catalog before it? How are you adapting your Information Literacy sessions to explain how these algorithms rank 'relevance'?"
Context: Recent scholarship from the 2026 ACRL Virtual Symposium suggests that "Algorithm Literacy" is now more critical than "Database Navigation." The shift is from teaching where to click to teaching how the machine interprets the query.
